Airport air traffic control takes a digital 360-degree view

More on the Europe-wide overhaul of its air traffic control technology, this time with a Swedish project to create facilities to handle central airport movements.

More on the Europe-wide overhaul of its air traffic control technology, this time with a Swedish project to create facilities to handle central airport movements.

The idea has been kicking around for a few years, but the project is expected to start seeing some kind of deployment later this year and into 2012 after a number of tests at Ängelholm and Malmö airports.

Created by Swedish air traffic control group LFV with defence and security firm Saab, aircraft movements at two airports – Sundsvall and Örnsköldsvik – will be consolidated into a single system at Sundsvall.